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As the old Danish proverb says, it is difficult to make predictions,
especially about the future. Add the exponential pattern of change familiar
from Moore’s Law to the mix, multiply over a combination of dynamic trends,
and such augury is fraught with peril.
Take, for example, the Internet of Things (IoT). Simply looking at the
devices (sensors and actuators) themselves, we may extrapolate a number of
such trends, many of which follow exponential curves.
Such devices are rapidly getting smaller. They’re consuming less and less
power, so little that many such devices never require a battery replacement,
if they have a battery at all. Simultaneously, the amount of processing power
we can place on such tiny devices is also exploding.
Then there’s the somewhat discontinuous improvements in connectivity, as we
move ever c... (more)

Transformation Practice: The Key to Making Change a Core Competency
Guest post by Intellyx Principal Analyst Charles Araujo
There is a fundamental flaw in how many people think about digital
transformation. First, as we've written about extensively at Intellyx, people
tend to think about it as a finite corporate project, rather than as a
process of continual transformation.
There is a deeper flaw in thinking, however, that leads to this type of
project mentality. Enterprise leaders commonly think of transformation as
something done at a corporate level - something the organization does to
itself.
But that mindset creates a separation between the act of transformation at an
organizational level and the transformation that must occur within each
individual to make organizational transformation a reality.
The truth, however, is that there is no such thing as organization... (more)

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The rise of the market for No-Code platforms and tools has given rise to a
burgeoning population of ‘citizen developers’ – non-technical business
personnel who can use these platforms to build an increasingly powerful set
of business applications without writing a line of code.
As this market matures, different platforms focus on different challenges. As
a result, a wider range of ‘citizen’ roles also evolve, such as citizen
process creators and citizen data analysts.
High on this list: the new role of citizen integrator.
A citizen integrator is a non-technical business user who uses a No-Code
integration tool to perform either application integration or data
integration tasks – as well as tasks that combine these two integration
modes.
Integration has always been a difficult technical task that has heretofore
r... (more)

Three Digital Transformation Truths and One Great Myth
By Charles Araujo
It's conference season and, as you might expect, Jason and I have been on the
road covering a bunch of them. It's always great to see what the disruptive
players in the market are doing - and this year did not disappoint. But there
is one thing that repeatedly happens that just gets under my skin:
transformation-washing.
As Jason explained in a Forbes article over a year ago, ‘washing' is when a
vendor (or pundit) applies a buzzword loosely in an overt attempt to attach
themselves to its buzz. And transformation-washing is rampant.
At virtually every event vendors bombarded the attendees with all the reasons
that this tool or that solution was the driving force behind digital
transformation. Unquestionably, many of these tools are innovative and
represent genuine breakthroughs. But no tool, in a... (more)

Time to Pop the Bubble: Intellyx Retrospective and Predictions for 2018
Following a tradition dating back to 2002 at ZapThink and continuing at
Intellyx since 2014, it's time for Intellyx's annual predictions for the
coming year.
If you're a long-time fan, you know we have a twist to the typical annual
prediction post: we actually critique our predictions from the previous year.
To make things even more interesting, Charlie and I switch off, judging the
other's predictions. And now that he's been with Intellyx for more than a
year, this Cortex represents my first opportunity to see if his auguries made
the cut.
Charlie's Predictions for 2017
In last year's retrospective and predictions for the coming year, Charlie
made three predictions: DevOps loses its religion but gets real, AI and
machine learning (ML) become strategic, and the edge comes back into vogue.
I'm pl... (more)

The Deconstruction of Digital Transformation
Guest post by Intellyx Principal Analyst Charles Araujo
The complex idea behind the term digital transformation is that technology
has created a fundamental shift in how organizations operate. The
consumerization of technology - and the customer empowerment it created - has
upended the traditional operating paradigm of organizations moving it away
from a capital and process-centric model to a customer-centric one.
The need to digitally transform your organization is now - or at least should
be - a strategic imperative. The fact, however, that the term digital
transformation is now a bona fide buzzword has obfuscated its importance.
The problem is that we create buzzwords because we need a simple, shorthand
way of communicating what is otherwise a complex idea. In the process,
however, the deeper, underlying complexity of the... (more)

At Intellyx, we often talk about the transition from the Industrial Era to
the Digital Era, but other than the transformation of the technology itself,
the details have been rather sketchy. It's time to fill in some of the
blanks.
This transition has been going on for decades, of course. Another name for
the Digital Era is the Information Age, which started at the end of World War
II. Yet, while computers and the Internet have fundamentally changed business
in several complex and multifaceted ways, we still run our organizations
following the familiar patterns of the Industrial Era.
With the modern notion of digital transformation, however, enterprises are
chipping away at the fundamental organizational and operational structures
that have been with us since the nineteenth century or earlier.
One remarkable casualty: the business process. Business processes have beco... (more)

In the No-Code corner are the ‘citizen developers' - business users who can
build functional but generally limited apps without having to write a line of
code. The Low-Code corner, in contrast, centers on professional developers,
streamlining and simplifying their work - delivering enterprise-class
applications with little or no hand-coding.
At Intellyx we gravitate toward disruption, and the burgeoning
Low-Code/No-Code space has sucked us in like a black hole.
We've spoken with numerous vendors in this multifaceted market, and we work
with several of them - and yet, every one has a different value proposition.
The big analyst firms can't make heads or tails of this mess. Gartner has
concocted the High-Productivity Application Platform-as-a-Service mouthful,
or what hapless vendors call HPaPaaS - as though anyone would want to buy the
low-productivity alternative.
F... (more)

Blueprint4IT on Ulitzer
In this exclusive Q&A for SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal with Cloud Expo
Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, Tony Bishop - Founder & CEO of Adaptivity -
discusses Adaptivity's "IT Transformation Factory" and their Cloud Computing
strategy.
Bishop gave a General Session at the 5th Cloud Expo in New York in April
entitled "Understanding the Relationship Between Workloads and the Cloud."
About Tony Bishop: As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides
hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for
Adaptivity's key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with
an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of
business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations.
He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate
Investment Banking ... (more)

In a fast-moving discussion panel to round off an intense day of breakout
sessions that is due to kick off with a keynote on Enterprise Cloud Computing
by the Deputy CIO of the CIA, a SYS-CON.TV "Power Panel" at the 1st Annual
Government IT Expo on October 6 in Washington DC will seek among other topics
to match emerging federal cloud computing requirements against emerging
capabilities from cloud providers to reveal the most advisable course of
action for Federal decision makers. It will be moderated by Jeremy Geelan,
GovIT Expo Conference Chair.
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About the Panelists:
Bob Gourley - Crucial Point
Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), ... (more)

Cloud Expo New York
In response to massive demand, the world's largest Cloud event - the
International Cloud Expo series - is expanding its number of tracks and
sessions for its upcoming New York event: 5th International Cloud Expo.
The deadline for the very popular Call for Papers, which resulted in a
greater deluge of submissions than ever seen before, is being extended to the
other side of the holiday period - to January 15, 2010.
Additionally, SYS-CON Events announces the addition of additional tracks,
additional session slots, and a general all-round expansion of the program in
line with the expectations and needs of the 5,000 delegates who are expected
to register for the event.
Submit Your Speaking Proposal Today to the Largest Cloud Computing Event in
the World!
Topics to be covered at the 5th International Cloud Expo will include:
SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS Stora... (more)

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